INTERESTING: “Just Say No To ” … … what!?!

Friday, November 9, 2007

http://www.recruitingbloggers.com/rbs/2007/11/just-say-no-to-.html

The Electronic Recruiting News In Email_071108

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Just Say No To Forced Brothel Visits

Brands are fragile things, like snowmen in spring. That’s what Julie Roehm learned with Wal-Mart, a case study we concluded back in August. And now it seems Steve Biegel, former creative director for Dentsu America, is about to learn the same thing.

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Wow!!

There are so many lessons to take away from this one it’s hard to know where to start.

I’ll drop back to my first lesson in morality from a good Nun in Annunciation Parish too many years ago. “When you are presented with a situation, just ask yourself “When my Mom finds out, will she be proud of me?”. Seems like a real easy standard to meet.

After applying that lesson, I know I wouldn’t have been in this fellow’s shoes.

Also, the blogger’s observation — about upset about being fired or upset about the brothel visit — was pretty spot on. You have to make your objections in a timely manner. Hours; not years.

So here we have an illustration of another later lesson in morality from one of my first bosses at AT&T (Joe DJ) “don’t come to work drunk. don’t steal their pencils. don’t dip your pen in company ink.”. So that particular piece of guidance would have also dodged this bullet.

Finally, my own internal compass would have tilted at the suggestion, with a reading off the scale, pinned to the end of the dial with the legend “Are you out of your mind!”.

I too just shake my head in bemusement.

… but it makes great blogging fodder!

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TECHNOLOGY: Visible Path helps business people manage social networks

Friday, November 9, 2007

https://hooversconnect.visiblepath.com/

 

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Visible Path helps business people manage social networks and build relationship capital.

Our free service helps business people map and manage their professional social network, connect to contacts, collaborate with colleagues and gain insight into the relationships they have and access to the ones they need. Our paid corporate networks help companies connect their employees and provide access to the corporate social network to sell, market and recruit more effectively.

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Looks like they dusted it off and spruced it up. Maybe the feed the hamster inside cause it seems to be working now. As opposed to the way it was, which was to just sit there. Never would get off the front page. But it’s doing stuff now. We’ll see if it is of any value.

By the way, it should say “manage its own social network”; it doesn’t speak to LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, or any of the other 80 or so social networks that I know about. So that certainly “observation #1”.

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INTERESTING: The nonsense that passes as “higher education”

Friday, November 9, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/11/07/academic_cesspools_ii

Academic Cesspools II
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

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It’s a safe bet the university did not highlight this kind of learning experience to parents and students in its recruitment efforts. Nor were generous donors and alumni informed that they are racists by birth. I’d also guess that this kind of “education” was kept under wraps from the state legislators who use taxpayer money to fund the university.

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That’s why we need to get the gooferment out of ALL education. At all levels. And, let institutions succeed or fail based on merit. Not subsidies of the taxpayer extracted at gunpoint.

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LINKEDIN: Track the origin of the species

Friday, November 9, 2007

In building your LinkedIn circle of connections, it appears wise to have some organized system of tracking them from the beginning. Lest, awhile down the road, you WILL be asked “How do I know you?”. Sometimes that’s a tough question. Unless you have anticipated it.

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